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Sojourner Truth was an African American women's rights activist. Read her famous speech, Ain't I a Woman, which she delivered without preparation in 1851.
‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ – sometimes known as ‘Ar’n’t I a Woman?’ – is the title of a speech which Sojourner Truth, a freed African slave living in the United States, delivered in 1851 at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio.
Speech Transcript – Sojourner Truth. Full transcript of Sojourner Truth’s famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech from May 29, 1851. Sojourner Truth: ( 00:14) Well children …. Well there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
"Ain't I a Woman?" is a speech, generally considered to have been delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth (1797–1883), born into slavery in the state of New York. Some time after gaining her freedom in 1827, she became a well known anti-slavery speaker.
Nov 17, 2017 · At the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth delivered what is now recognized as one of the most famous abolitionist and women’s rights speeches in American history, “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Some men say that women need to be helped into carriages and over ditches—women, these men say, should “have the best place everywhere.” But Sojourner Truth, a Black woman, says that she never gets helped into carriages—no one gives her the “best place,” ever. “And ain’t I a woman?” she asks her audience.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they...
